Trade Me: Property, Jobs, Shop

This app presumably can search using images but does not do so accurately. There is no way of filtering results by material used in the construction of an item nor blocking older, previously viewed or undesirable listings. Also, and most importantly, there is no efficient way of reaching the customer service department. Most game apps allow a patron to communicate a concern, report an issue or request a review however TM could care less! If you cannot find an answer to your query or issue in their Q & A section, you are redirected to an endless loop of frustration. This app is terribly out of date so it’s no wonder more and more people are turning to Facebook Marketplace where it’s free to buy and sell.

Used it for half an hour viewing listings and it crashed three times, super annoying.

Takes forever to view photos on a listing

Why can’t we edit our location from the App itself ? Here I am in Christchurch and it lists my item in Auckland... thanks

Can’t create a new account in the app, need to have one set up already. That’s kind of useless.

Not bad

I’ve been using Trade me for 21 years now as a professional and a private seller and it gets worse every year. So many unnecessary pages to click through and a lot of functions or relists can’t be done on the app or the desktop. I find it almost impossible to add photos from my iPhone or iPad. If you are listing on marketplace it just works every time except you have to deal with the idiots on there. Gonna to basics TM and sort it out.

Have been using Trademe for years and it’s been great, however this latest update (June ‘24) has removed so many features and lags terribly. It’s impossible to edit categories after listing, and you can’t see any information about the listing without going into it (previously could see views, watchers, bids etc now it’s just blank). Also having issues with not getting push notifications for messages within the app despite them being turned on in settings. Overall very disappointed with the update and will probably be looking for alternatives rather than using it from now on if it’s not changed. If you haven’t already, don’t update it :) The customer service is also increasingly bad, have had an influx of scammers (even when only allowing authenticated buyers) and trademe have been incredibly unhelpful and they don’t do anything about trying to get people to go through with trades. Very frustrating as a seller.

24/5/24 Quite disappointed with trademes latest update. I use this app almost daily and there app was very user friendly until this most recent update. No longer can you see how many views, bids and watchers you have on without opening the listing. Listing adjustments are very limited now. App is horrible to use. Customer service is hit and miss mostly miss tbh. Messaging doesn’t send notifications. All in all was a very good app until the update

When I want to see a specific bike make ,you end up with every dealer listing that may or may not have that one bike but you can end up scrolling through literally 1000 or more other bikes I’m amazed at how many Harley Davidson come up when your looking for anything else